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NIH Refers to ‘Wikipedians’ for Help: Scientists Learn Online Etiquette

July 28th, 2009

Washington Post – “To make that online information more reliable, NIH is encouraging its scientists and science writers to edit and even initiate Wikipedia articles in their fields. This month, it joined with the Wikimedia Foundation, which publishes the cyber encyclopedia, to host “Wikipedia Academy,” a training session on the tools and rules of wiki culture, at NIH headquarters in Bethesda.”

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